congresswoman betty sutton has stood up for american jobs and put new meaning to putting old betty back in the garage and putting new cars on the streets. that's why it's imperative that we pass this bill. 25% of ohio's economy is based on how well or how poorly the automotive industry performs. 560,000 new vehicle registrations alone in ohio last year. that averaged 150,000 per dealership in ohio. that is about putting americans back in american-built cars. i yield back my time. thank you. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentlewoman from ohio reserves this egentleman from michigan is recognized. >> i yield two minutes to the distinguished republican whip, mr. cantor, of virginia. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for two minutes. mr. cantor: madam speaker, i rise in reluctant opposition to this bill. it was my sincere hope this bill would have come to the floor under a process that would have allowed members to offer amendments. had we been permitted to do so, i would have offered an amendment to allow individuals to use the credit for

in addition, we will consider representative betty sutton's bill, the consumer assistance to recycle and save act of 2009 and h.r. 2410, the foreign relations authorization act, for fiscal years 2010 and 2011. h.r. 1886, a pakistan enduring assistance and cooperation enhancement act of 2009. we'll also expect to consider a conference report on h.r. 2346, the supplemental appropriation bill. i was hoping it to consider that tomorrow but discussions between the senate and the house have not been concluded. i yield back. mr. cantor: mr. speaker, i thank the gentleman and, mr. speaker, i'd say to the gentleman that he just referred to and announced that we would be considering the war funding supplemental conference report next week. and i'd ask the gentleman, does he expect that the very controversial senate-passed provision providing for the i.m.f. money to be included in the conference report? mr. hoyer: my friend yield? i thank the gentleman for yielding. as you know, the senate added the i.m.f. funding to the bill. it is a loan guarantee. we expect the probability is there will be n

proposal which came out of the energy and commerce committee was introduced by representative betty sutton, the threshold for older vehicles would be about 18 miles per gallon. in order to qualify for the credit it would need be a i think it is a four-mile per hour increase for cars and one mile per hour increase for trucks. >> now you mentioned the house. they're set to consider a bill on tuesday. will it get the two-thirds needed for passage? >> it appears headed that way. it's got pretty wide bipartisan support. when it came out of e.n.c. i think it passed 50-4. the only concern is there's been some discussions that the house leadership may attempt to insert it into the support for the war supplemental which could cloud things a little bit. there's opposition to that from the for some conservative republicans but that isn't necessarily related to the chunkers bill as much as some other provisions. >> over in the senate, michigan democratic senator debbie stabinau, there are reports she's working to get this cash for chunkers language added to the tobacco regulation bill the senate is wo

base of the united states of america and i yield back some of the time you graciously yielded to betty sutton so i could speak. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentlewoman from ohio is recognized. ms. sutton: thank you, madam speaker. at this point it's my privilege to yield two minutes to the distinguished gentleman from washington, representative jay inslee. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from washington is recognized for two minutes. mr. inslee: i request permission to revise and extend. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. the gentleman is recognized. mr. inslee: i want to point out we know this is going to help the auto industry, but i want to point out how it's going to affect con so -- consumers. consumers will save 100,000 gallons of gas a year because of the fuel efficiency of the car. that's $250 -- 250 million gallons of gasoline we otherwise will not be burning. the reason i point this out is there is a benefit to the environment in our efforts to stop global warming in this bill. mr. israel and myself had earlier introduce